Sentence examples for contracted as a baby from inspiring English sources
He had played football in high school, and after a physical had been cleared for college play, but the coroner later found that he had died from an acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack, stemming from a little-known disease he contracted as a baby.
By the time he was just 13, Guillaume had already lost his mother to AIDS, his father to the 1994 Rwandan genocide and found out that he had contracted HIV as a baby from his mother.
Gordon was born in Edinburgh in 1936 and spent much of his childhood in hospital after contracting polio as a baby.
Despite her legs being paralyzed from contracting polio as a baby in India, Minda became the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii in October 2013.
As a baby, she contracted a lung infection that kept her in an oxygen tent for two weeks.
As a baby she contracted a severe lung infection and spent weeks in a oxygen tent in hospital, prompting her parents, Moira and John, to look for warmer climes.
A middle son, Edmund, had died as a baby from measles, which he contracted from six-year-old Jamie; the child was accused of deliberately infecting his brother and remained guilt-stricken for the rest of his sad, foreshortened life.
Eventually, they signed a management contract as well as a life-story contract.
The city's health department says that, between 2000 and 2011, 11 babies contracted herpes as a result, and 2 of them died.
